Da dove vieni? Quanto contano le categorie etnonazionali?
The paper uses original interview material from the ongoing research project Second Generations: Migration Processes and Mechanisms of Integration among Foreigners and Italians (1950-2010) to explore what cognitive categories are used by young people of foreign origin when identifying and distinguis...
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| Taal: | Italien |
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Quaderni di Sociologia
2016
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | The paper uses original interview material from the ongoing research project Second Generations: Migration Processes and Mechanisms of Integration among Foreigners and Italians (1950-2010) to explore what cognitive categories are used by young people of foreign origin when identifying and distinguishing themselves. It draws on theoretical ideas developed by Brubaker and Wimmer and criticizes the widespread tendency to interpret young people’s identities in “culturalist” terms. The research interviews did not ask young people directly about their “identity”, for this would might have encouraged interviewees to evoke the standard repertoire of how “foreign” or “Italian” they felt, leaving out other possible identifications. The excerpts from interviews instead contain the identifications and classifications interviewees used spontaneously in describing various situations. They show that children of migrants employ many kinds of classification of the social world, and that national classifications are only one of these, not the identity. National classifications are employed in particular situations in accordance with the speaker’s social experience and biography. And when they are employed, they are subject to distinctions and specifications. |
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